MagaSwaga Potent Notables

Notable: Chris Tucker was on the Lolita Express w Bill and Kevin.

Chris Tucker was on the Lolita Express w Bill and Kevin.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2922773/Newly-released-flight-logs-reveal-time-trips-Bill-Clinton-Harvard-law-professor-Alan-Dershowitz-took-pedophile-Jeffrey-Epstein-s-Lolita-Express-private-jet-anonymous-women.html

Chris Tucker has a charity foundation to "Help" Africans, he said on Insta that he was inspired to start it while hanging out with Bono in Africa.

I'm digging through PZGT today. I'm HUNGRY for Justice today.

GODSPEED ANONS!

Notable: YouTube Deplatforms Retired Navy SEAL Who Exposed Tribal Elder Nathan Phillips' Stolen Valor

YouTube Deplatforms Retired Navy SEAL Who Exposed Tribal Elder Nathan Phillips' Stolen Valor

YouTube last week deplatformed a YouTube channel that specialized in exposing Stolen Valor cases. "Stolen Valor," of course, refers to cases where dishonorable pretenders are caught making fraudulent claims of military honors they didn't earn. Retired Navy Seal Don Shipley has made it his life's mission to expose these shameless charlatans. His channel had 232,806 subscribers at the time it was taken down and had been in operation since around 2008.

He told PJ Media that he thinks his channel was taken down because he had "outed Nathan Phillips," who had "masqueraded as a Vietnam vet."

.@YouTube @TeamYouTube

Your ongoing viewpoint discrimination against the Right is wrong & un-America

But taking down the channel of #DonShipley who exposes #StolenValor military poseurs is disgraceful

Fix This!https://t.co/Xk0tvVgk6R

— Jim Hanson (@Uncle_Jimbo) February 26, 2019

Shipley confirmed that he'd been "booted off YouTube" in a post on his "Extreme SEAL Adventures" Facebook page on February 21.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/youtube-deplatforms-retired-navy-seal-who-exposed-tribal-elder-nathan-phillips-stolen-valor/

Notable: Michael Cohen to Say Trump Learned of WikiLeaks Plans Early

Michael Cohen to Say Trump Learned of WikiLeaks Plans Early

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cohen-to-say-trump-knew-about-wikileaks-talks-engaged-in-criminal-conduct-while-in-office-11551249532

Cohen says Trump learned about it in July 2016.

Assange told the world about in June 2016.

Notable: White House Video of POTUS and Chairman Kim

White House Video of POTUS and Chairman Kim

twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1100765935328264192

twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1100765935328264192

Notable: House panel seeks to depose Trump tax, ethics attorneys

Exclusive: House panel seeks to depose Trump tax, ethics attorneys

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House panel investigating President Donald Trump wants to depose Trump’s long-time tax lawyer Sheri Dillon, as well as Stefan Passantino, former deputy White House Counsel in charge of compliance and ethics, according to letters sent to both of them on Wednesday and seen by Reuters. House of Representatives Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, a Democrat, said in the letters that the panel wants to ask about Trump’s legally mandated financial ethics disclosures. The panel, the letters said, also seeks information about payments made before the 2016 presidential election by former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen to buy the silence of women who claimed they had affairs with the married Trump. Neither Dillon nor Passantino responded immediately to requests for comment. The White House also did not immediately have a comment.

The letters, sent hours before Cohen was set to testify to the committee about his work for Trump, signals a widening of its investigation into Trump’s personal finances. Dillon has a deep understanding of the president’s tax filings. Breaking with decades of presidential tradition, Trump has refused to make his tax returns public, leading other Democrats in Congress also to seek them. The letter did not indicate the committee would question Dillon about Trump’s tax returns. The Cummings letters targets a 92-page ethics disclosure form that Trump filed in May 2018. It said he repaid Cohen in 2017 for a $130,000 payment made weeks before the November 2016 election to porn actress Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, to silence her over an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.

A June 2017 disclosure filed by Trump did not list a debt owed to Cohen. Some critics of the president have said this omission amounted to filing a false report, a federal crime. In the letters to Dillon and Passantino, Cummings wrote that interviews with them “will address issues related to President Donald Trump’s financial disclosure reporting and the reimbursement of Michael Cohen for payments to silence women alleging affairs before the 2016 election.” He added that, to accommodate committee Republicans’ concerns, Dillon and Passantino would be able to provide “a first-hand account of your interactions with the Office of Government Ethics.” Passantino’s signature appeared on the 2018 disclosure filing, confirming that he concluded Trump was “in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.” Passantino, summoned to appear on March 18, is now a legal adviser to the Trump Organization, the president’s business.

Dillon, summoned to appear on March 19, is a partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. She detailed Trump’s business investments at a press conference in 2016 shortly after he was elected and would likely have helped prepare the ethics disclosure, which provides an account of his business holdings.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-lawyer-exclusive/exclusive-house-panel-seeks-to-depose-trump-tax-ethics-attorneys-idUSKCN1QG1WZ

Notable: Facebook Insider Leaks Docs; Explains “Deboosting,” “Troll Report,” & Political Targeting

Facebook Insider Leaks Docs; Explains “Deboosting,” “Troll Report,” & Political Targeting

https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/02/27/facebook-insider-leaks-docs/

Notable: Fake MSM news: Peace in Korea is now a distraction, according to CNN.

Peace in Korea is now a distraction, according to CNN.

If WWW3 breaks out between Pakistan & India today, CNN will probably keep the Cohen show on split screen.

Notable: Nigeria’s president Buhari has been re-elected for a second term

Nigeria’s president Buhari has been re-elected for a second term

Three days after presidential elections held on Feb. 23, results announced by INEC, Nigeria’s electoral commission, confirm president Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been re-elected.

Buhari fulfilled both criteria for winning the presidency, scoring a majority of the vote as well as over 25% of votes cast in 24 of Nigeria’s 36 states. Buhari defeated main challenger, former vice president Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to emerge winner with 56% of the vote.

For its part, PDP has already rejected the results, alleging electoral malpractice. As further proof of the dominance of APC and PDP, Nigeria’s two biggest political parties, third party candidates collectively won just over a million votes nationwide.

https://qz.com/africa/1560506/nigeria-election-president-buhari-wins-second-term/

Notable: Pakistani leader calls for talks after 2 Indian warplanes shot down, pilot captured

Pakistani leader calls for talks after 2 Indian warplanes shot down, pilot captured

Muzaffarabad, Pakistan – Pakistan's air force shot down two Indian warplanes after they crossed the boundary between the two rivals in the disputed territory of Kashmir on Wednesday and captured an Indian pilot, Pakistani officials said. The dramatic escalation came only hours after Pakistan said mortar shells fired by Indian troops from across the frontier dividing the two sectors of Kashmir killed six civilians and wounded several others. But Pakistan's leader urged calm and called for dialogue on Wednesday, appearing keen to put the brakes on the snowballing tension between the nuclear armed neighbors.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pakistan-india-warplanes-shot-down-pilot-captured-kashmir-tension-soars/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=64120378

Notable: Iran Apprehends Eight Al-Qaeda Suspects for Attack on IRGC Forces

MAJOR: Iran Apprehends Eight Al-Qaeda Suspects for Attack on IRGC Forces

TEHRAN – Eight people have been arrested so far in connection with the terrorist attack that took place in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, said the head of the Provincial Justice Department of Sistan-Baluchestan Province.

A suicide attack on a bus, carrying Islamic Republic Guard Corps (IRGC) personnel, martyred 27 and wounded 13 in southeastern Iran on February 12th. A terrorist group so-called Jaish al-Adl, affiliated to Al-Qaida, claimed responsibility for the incident.

Ibrahim Hamidi said that one of the detainees who is the owner of the exploded car is a woman that was arrested based on solid evidence.

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‘When examining her house, parts of the exploded car were found,’ he noted.

He added that as soon as the court verdict is issued, it will be announced publicly

https://www.fort-russ.com/2019/02/major-iran-apprehends-eight-al-qaeda-suspects-for-attack-on-irgc-forces/

Notable: T-Mobile delays 5G network launch until the second half of the year

T-Mobile delays 5G network launch until the second half of the year, report

T-Mobile users may need to wait a little longer for 5G than those on AT&T, Sprint or Verizon.

In an interview with CNET Monday, T-Mobile chief technology officer Neville Ray said that his company will be pushing off the launch of its 5G network to the second half of 2019 as it waits for a phone that is better equipped to work with the company’s lower band wireless spectrum.

At the industry MWC tradeshow in Barcelona last year the company said it was working to build out its network across 30 cities with a plan to start shipping its first 5G devices in “early 2019.”

New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and Las Vegas were previously announced to be getting the new network first.

The news of the T-Mobile delay comes on the same day that Sprint announced it would be turning on its own 5G network in Chicago, Kansas City, Atlanta and Dallas in May, with five other cities still on track to have 5G during the first half of 2019.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/02/t-mobile-delays-5g-network-launch-until-the-second-half-of-the-year-report/

Notable: all recent tests from Q compiled graphic

all recent tests from Q compiled

Notable: Michael Cohen investigation by the DOJ and Mueller probe, and the phone calls

The real story behind the Michael Cohen investigation by the DOJ and Mueller probe, and the phone calls informing Michael Cohen and the Trump Campaign about the Obama-Clinton terrorist financing operations in the Middle East using Swiss Banks, Department of Justice, State Department, and Union Bank of Switzerland and others.

book available at: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/shellgame

www.shellgamewhistleblower.com

MEMO TO PRESIDENT: SHELL GAME–TERRORIST FINANCING AND MICHAEL COHEN INVESTIGATION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ6rFVhiMX8

http://republicbroadcasting.org/news/donald-trump-possesses-this-document-along-with-flynn-mattis-cohen-and-others/

https://www.scribd.com/document/377099398/High-Crimes

Notable: House climate-change hearing adjourns after not enough Democrats show up

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House climate-change hearing adjourns after not enough Democrats show up

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-climate-change-hearing-adjourns-after-not-enough-democrats-show-up

Notable: BNO News tweet: Pakistan closes airspace to all commercial flights due to tensions with India

im not sure Im buying all this India / Pakistan hoopla…

Where are the videos? None of live fire…

im sure Im wrong.. just seems quite

Notable: 9th Circuit gets new Trump-picked judge after WH bypasses Dems

=NEWS=

Liberal 9th Circuit gets new Trump-picked judge after WH bypasses Dems

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ninth-circuit-gets-another-trump-picked-judge-after-white-house-bypasses-consultation-with-dems

Notable: Trust in media hits bottom, 60 percent say sources pay for stories

Trust in media hits bottom, 60 percent say sources pay for stories

Confidence in the media has hit rock bottom, with many news consumers believing that reporters file their reports before knowing the facts and 60 percent are under the impression that sources pay for stories, according to a depressing new survey of American journalism.

The Columbia Journalism Review poll also confirmed the pending death of print newspapers and magazines and a remarkable shift to social and online media as sources of news.

The survey, done in partnership with Reuters/Ipsos, interviewed 4,214 adults and found that the media is last on a list of all of Washington’s institutions that the public has confidence in, even under Congress.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/trust-in-media-hits-bottom-60-percent-say-sources-pay-for-stories

Notable: key Democrats in the House publicly back DJT ahead of his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un

A group of key Democrats in the House of Representatives have come forward to publicly back President Donald Trump ahead of his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Led by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), a top voice in the Democrat Party pushing for an end to endless wars around the globe, a group of 18 Democrats have signed onto a resolution in the House that would formally end the Korean War in its 68th year. Technically, the war never ended–and U.S. troops have remained deployed along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea–since open conflict stopped decades ago.

The resolution has the backing of 18 House Democrats, including a number of regular harsh critics of President Trump like freshman Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and the backing of former President Jimmy Carter.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/26/key-democrats-back-president-trump-in-north-korea-talks-with-kim-jong-un/#

Notable: Hungary PM May Face More Calls for Expulsion From EPP Amid His Row With Juncker

Hungary PM May Face More Calls for Expulsion From EPP Amid His Row With Juncker

Last week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced “full solidarity” with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who earlier suggested that Hungary’s ruling Fidesz Party should be expelled from the European People’s Party (EPP) group.

During the 20 March gathering of the European People’s Party (EPP), Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his ruling Fidesz Party could face “renewed calls” for their expulsion from the EPP, The Guardian reports.

The newspaper cited several unnamed sources as saying that no official disciplinary procedure against Fidesz has been launched by the EPP although the expulsion of the party will be high on the centre-right bloc’s agenda during the gathering.

https://sputniknews.com/europe/201902271072796879-hungary-orban-juncker-spat/

Notable: India is expected to escalate the fighting after Pakistan shelled

India is expected to escalate the fighting after Pakistan shelled an army post and shot down an Indian plane.

The reasoning in India is that they bombed a non military objective but Pakistan attacked a military target.

Notable: wrongful death lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase dismissed

JPMorgan absolved by U.S. judge in former top broker’s suicide

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge in Manhattan on Tuesday dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co by the estate of a former top broker, who it said committed suicide after being forced into retirement.

U.S. District Judge John Keenan said it was not reasonably foreseeable that JPMorgan’s treatment of Michael Lorig would cause him to take his life at age 66 on Jan. 22, 2017, after years of what the estate called depression and mental illness.

Keith Fleischman, a lawyer for the estate, declined to comment. JPMorgan also declined to comment.

According to the complaint, Lorig was a senior managing director from Florida who joined JPMorgan after it bought his former employer Bear Stearns in 2008.

The marathoner and avid cyclist performed in the top 20 percent of his division and commanded seven-figure pay, but was told on Aug. 8, 2016, there was “no work for him to return to” after he spent two years on disability leave, the complaint said.

Lorig had twice previously taken leaves of absence for his depression, and his mental health issues were or should have been known to the bank, the complaint added.

Keenan, said, however, that because Lorig had assumed he could return to work after his disability leave, only actions taken by JPMorgan after he was told he could not return could be said to have caused his suicide.

The judge also said it had been nearly two years since Lorig’s doctors advised JPMorgan that Lorig might be suicidal.

“Given these circumstances, it was not reasonably foreseeable that defendants’ actions would result in Lorig’s suicide,” Keenan wrote. “These actions were simply too attenuated to be the proximate cause.”

The estate had sought a variety of monetary damages.

The case is Mullaugh as personal representative of the Estate of Lorig v JPMorgan Chase & Co et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 18-02908.

https://www.oann.com/jpmorgan-absolved-by-u-s-judge-in-former-top-brokers-suicide/

Notable: Senate Commerce Committee demanding answers from Google about non disclosure of microphone inside Nest home security devices

The Senate Commerce Committee is demanding answers from Google CEO Sundar Pichai about the company's failure to disclose a microphone inside Nest home security devices

After last week's privacy blunder involving Google's Nest home security system, US lawmakers want answers.

On Monday, Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the Senate Commerce Committee chairman, sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai demanding information about the tech giant's failure to disclose a microphone in its Nest Secure devices to consumers.

"In recent years, consumers have become increasingly concerned about the ability of large technology companies to collect and use personal data about them without their knowledge," the letter said. "Therefore, it is critically important that companies like Google be completely transparent with consumers, and provide full disclosure of all technical specifications of their products at the point of sale."

https://www.businessinsider.com/senate-lawmakers-demand-answers-from-google-over-hidden-nest-microphone-2019-2

Notable: North Korea has commented on India and Pakistan military clashes.

>>5413741

North Korea has commented on India and Pakistan military clashes.

Notable: China and Russia Building a space force?

Trump’s Space Force Isn’t the Only Military Space Program: Here’s What China and Russia Are Up To

The United States may or may not be getting a Space Force, but while President Trump is all-in on the creation of a new branch of the U.S. Military—and blowing up the military bureaucracy—it’s worth keeping in mind other countries have their military space programs. A recent DIA report shines a light on how the U.S. views these programs, particularly those of Russia and China, neither of which seem particularly threatening—for now anyway.

This week President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive 4, ordering the Pentagon to stand up the Space Force as a new branch of the U.S. military. The Space Force, which still requires the blessing of Congress, is miles from being able to put moon boots on the ground, and its existence—let alone usefulness—is still a puzzle to many. To look at how supporters justify the Space Force, it’s useful to look at America’s potential adversaries, particularly Russia and China, and what the U.S. government claims they’re doing in space.

https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/as-trump-s-space-force-ramps-up-what-are-russia-and-ch-1832772367

Notable: NK Officials visiting car factory in Hai Phong ahead of summit

https://www.nknews.org/2019/02/north-korean-officials-tour-car-factory-in-hai-phong-ahead-of-kim-trump-meeting/

Notable: Huawei Chairman Mocks US "Security Threat"

Huawei Chairman Mocks US "Security Threat" Claims With Jab At Snowden

Huawei executives took advantage of this week's Mobile World Conference in Barcelona - one of the global telecom industry's biggest trade events - to mock US allegations that Chinese telecom giant represents a possible security threat for the US's western allies, when he correctly pointed out that US law requires the same type of security cooperation for which Huawei is allegedly complicit.

In remarks that touched a nerve for the US, Huawei Chairman Guo Ping offered what Bloomberg described as "his boldest defense yet" against allegations that Huawei is complicit in espionage during a presentation in Barcelona, where he also brought up the NSA domestic mass-surveillance programs exposed by former contractor Edward Snowden. Many of these programs - like the infamous PRISM program - involved the mandatory cooperation of the US's biggest tech and telecoms firms in the collection of digital communications. Guo pointed out that US federal law requires companies to hand over data to the government, even when that data is stored on foreign servers.

Guo's macabre sense of humor elicited a few laughs from his audience.

"Prism, prism on the wall, who is the most trustworthy of them all?" Ping asked, drawing laughter and scattered applause. "It is a very important question and if you don’t answer that, you can go and ask Edward Snowden."

In an editorial published by the FT on Wednesday, Guo hit upon what he said was the real source of the US's anxieties about Huawei: The Chinese telecoms giant threatens the US's "digital dominance" and has stoked fears of falling behind in the race for becoming the dominant power in 5G technology. Another consideration: As Snowden revealed, the US intelligence agencies are hell-bent on "collecting it all", and obedient domestic companies have been more than happy to oblige. But the growing dominance of Huawei, which operates in 170 countries and isn't beholden to Washington, makes that task much more difficult.

rest at link

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-27/huawei-chairman-mocks-us-security-threat-claims-jab-snowden

Notable: Lady gaga cut from chinese TV sation

Spirit cooking witch banned in China kek

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6750911/Chinese-TV-station-cuts-appearances-Lady-Gaga-Oscars-ceremony.html

Notable: George Pell's lawyer says sex crimes were plain and vanilla

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6750673/George-Pells-lawyer-labels-convicted-paedophiles-sex-crimes-plain-vanilla.html

George Pell's lawyer says sex crimes were plain and vanilla. "Lasted less than six minutes."

Dear Lord, these people are beyond evil.

Notable: Are Q's tests related to old drops?

>>5410295 pb notable - you know this wasn't the only device test done - I'm not sure the meaning behind switching from letters to numbers - I presume the devices are simply ways to post and Q's online to post using them. them being prepared in some way to do something soon should the need arise

Notable: Cohen at house committee "Prepare For Procedural Disaster"

>>5413439

It’s going to be a clusterfuck for the dems. Republicans are going to go nuclear exposing Cohen’s crimes. People in the know, know. kek

https://twitter.com/lawfareblog/status/1100728741381193731?s=21

Notable: Man gets chipped live at technology fair in Barcelona.

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/437210-man-gets-live-under-skin-chip-implant-at-mobile-fair

Man gets chipped live at technology fair in Barcelona.

The brave new world. No thanks.

Notable: MSM colluding with Democrats graphic

Fake News MSM colluding with Democrats to bury positive coverage of President Trump during Vietnam Summit with Kim. 4am talking points are bury summit coverage with an admitted liar lying to congress.

Notable: clockfag analysis

tyb

Notable: Palantir HAS ACCESS TO ALL us INTEL dbases

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Karp

Notable: Pakistan warns of nuclear war 'miscalculation'

Of course…

Just as Trump and Kim are about to stabilise the Korean Peninsula, the black hats try and inflame another global nuclear tension. Obviousnto anons but not to the general public.

Notable: Man rapes child over sanctuary city policies

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/defendant-who-raped-child-because-philadelphia-s-sanctuary-city-policies-sentenced

Notable: Former NASA Contractor pleads guilty to reciept of child porn

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/former-nasa-contractor-pleads-guilty-receipt-child-pornography

Notable: conservative to the 9th circuit Eric Miller's previous job Appellate Chairman of Perkins Coie

The senate just did a run around and confirmed a conservative to the 9th circuit. PROBLEM is, this guy, Seattle attorney, Eric Miller. Eric Miller's previous job, Appellate Chairman of Perkins Coie. Yes, that Perkins Coie……

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ninth-circuit-gets-another-trump-picked-judge-after-white-house-bypasses-consultation-with-dems

Notable: will the next 21 days bring old Qdrops to life?

I’ve just got this feeling over the next 21 days some of these post will become relevant again.

Future proves past and re - read drops on Stage set. There’s just something in my mind that we will start to get answers to some of our old questions

HRC video is mentioned, sessions appointed someone outside of DC (long ago), March madness, CF drops and Australia.

If this is a sample we in for one hell of a ride!

It’s been awesome Q family!

Notable: “no justification” for stationing National Guard troops at the U.S.-Mexico border

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/citing-no-justification-wisconsin-gov-075628595.html

(Huffpo originally)

Can State Govs do this one Guard is deployed and POTUS takes control? I didn't think they could?

Citing “no justification” for stationing National Guard troops at the U.S.-Mexico border, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) issued an executive order Monday withdrawing more than 110 soldiers and airmen of the Wisconsin National Guard from Arizona’s southern border.

“There is simply not ample evidence to support the president’s contention that there exists a national security crisis at our southwestern border,” Evers said in a statement, referring to President Donald Trump’s claim that the U.S. is facing an immigration emergency:

There is simply not ample evidence to support the president’s contention of a national security crisis at our southwestern border. Therefore, there is no justification for the ongoing presence of Wisconsin National Guard personnel at the border. https://t.co/ggPNa10zWW

— Governor Tony Evers (@GovEvers) February 25, 2019

Evers’ predecessor, Republican Gov. Scott Walker, deployed the state’s National Guard to Arizona last June following a proclamation signed by Trump ordering the National Guard to protect the border. In his executive order this week, Evers said that he revoked consent for this deployment and called for all 112 Wisconsin National Guard to be “promptly” pulled off their current missions at the border.

Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin were quick to lambaste Evers’ decision. Sen. Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, called the governor’s move “unfortunate.” Scott Fitzgerald, the majority leader of the state Senate, accused Evers of “playing politics instead of working to keep Wisconsin safe.”

GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who said he serves in the Wisconsin National Guard, also took issue with Evers’ announcement.

“I’m grateful to my fellow Wisconsin Guard members, and I’m deeply disappointed you won’t let them do what they are trained to do for the good of the country. [Gov. Evers] I hope you’ll reconsider,” Kinzinger wrote.

His crew found and directed @cbp to a man crossing the border with 70 lbs of meth. Had we not been there, that deadly drug would be on the streets. Wonder the damage that would do in Milwaukee…

— Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) February 25, 2019

Evers is the third governor this month to pull National Guard troops from the border. The first was New Mexico’s Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat who declared that her state would “not take part in the president’s charade of border fear-mongering.” California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) soon followed suit, announcing his intention on Feb. 11 to pull most of the state’s 360 National Guard troops from the border.

“The border ‘emergency’ is a manufactured crisis, and California will not be part of this political theater,” Newsom said.

Days later, Trump — in an effort to fund his much-touted border wall — declared a national emergency at the southern border.

“We’re going to confront the national security crisis on our southern border, and we’re going to do it one way or the other,” Trump said at the time

Notable: POTUS tweet da nang dick analysis graphic

>>5412781

fresh bake

Notable: Those who are the loudest left wing biased megia graphic

Those who are the loudest…

From teh front likes of left wing BIASED media.

If Yahoo was anymore left they'd go circular.

Anons know what a creep this guy and is T&A wife are.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/john-legend-calls-trump-moron-ahole-072333200.html

John Legend calls Trump a 'moron and a**hole'

George Back

Producer, Yahoo Entertainment

February 27, 2019

John Legend visited The Daily Show With Trevor Noah just a little more than a week after meeting with Barack Obama. And the ten-time Grammy winner discussed the vast differences between the 44th and 45th presidents of the U.S.

Legend recently joined basketball star Stephen Curry and Obama in Oakland, California for the My Brother’s Keeper Rising! conference. The two-day event is part of an Obama initiative, which he introduced as president, to help young men of color address challenges and promote racial justice.

Since Legend’s visit with the former president is fresh in his mind, Noah asked, “Is it weird sitting with Barack Obama and then hearing Trump give a speech the next day?” Legend responded, “Honestly, it is really jarring, the juxtaposition.”

Legend described what he likes about Obama, saying, “The level of nuance that Obama’s capable of and just his worldliness and intelligence about life and his good character.” But when it came to describing Trump, the musician said, “It’s like we have a complete moron and asshole in the White House right now.”

Legend repeatedly said that he was not joking. He went on to compare the two, saying, “[Trump’s] not a good human being. And, so, when you’re with someone who’s a really good human being, it’s a very jarring juxtaposition.”

Notable: Hearing with Michael Cohen letter only issued to dems on committee

>>5412801

Elijah Cummings' Memo to Democratic Members of the Committee on Oversight and Reform re Hearing with Michael Cohen.

Why issued only to Dems on Committee?

http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/02/26/02-24-2019.democratic.member.memo.for.2-27.cohen.hearing.pdf

Notable: Missing pilot in pakistan/india conflict

>>5412760

here's some sauce.

https://twitter.com/ndtv/status/1100696123746840579

Notable: dem colluding reporters list in alphabetical order and in pastebin

Anons, a while ago I grabbed the "colluding reporters" names from the old Q post, sorted them alphabetically and made a pastebin. The pastebin link is here -

https://pastebin.com/XLR0NGTm

Notable: American infastructure apart and sent it to china as scrap

>>5412661

LNG

Rail lines

Dry ports

Trains

They fucking tore american infastructure apart and sent it to china as scrap so they could build.

They are going to control the entire other half of the world with the money and resources that were raped from America.

Vietnam/NK is important for moar than just a meeting.

It’s like one big RTS game.

Notable: Plane fag on his post

Hello my lovely, what have we here? A C17 taking off from Tampa international, and perhaps headed? Gitmo?

Notable: Joe Biden picked up a $150,000 paycheck' for a Florida appearance

What a Faggot

Joe Biden's rock star rider includes 'an angel hair pomodoro dinner, orange Gatorade and THREE private dressing rooms' as its revealed he 'picked up a $150,000 paycheck' for a Florida appearance

Biden also wanted a caprese salad and raspberry sorbet with biscotti for dinner

Dressing room had orange Gatorade, Coke Zero and regular Coke

Democrat also asked for full-length mirrors and washrooms with fresh towels

His dressing room was reportedly labeled 'VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN' while he had two other private rooms with mirrors for his staff

Tickets for the event started at $50 and went up to $300 for VIP packages

But questions were moderated with some submitted two weeks in advance

Joe Biden's rock star rider included an angel hair pomodoro dinner, an orange Gatorade, a fully stocked refrigerator and three private dressing rooms, according to reports.

And the former vice president picked up a $150,000 paycheck for his appearance in Florida last month, a document obtained by MapLight shows.

Biden, who used the talk to further fuel speculation he will run for president in 2020, was reportedly given the all-star treatment for his talk at Broward Center.

A detailed contract shows how the Democrat wanted angel hair pomodoro, caprese salad and raspberry sorbet with biscotti for dinner.

It also states that Biden must have bottled water, Coke Zero, regular Coke, orange Gatorade and black coffee with mixed nuts and a fruit plate as snacks.

And it lists that the potential Democratic presidential contender wanted full-length mirrors and washrooms with fresh towels.

Biden's dressing room was labeled 'VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN', while he needed another two private rooms, also with floor length mirrors, for his staff, the document tweeted by political reporter Andrew Perez also states.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6749509/Veep-P-Joe-Bidens-rock-star-rider-150-000-paycheck-Florida-appearance.html

Notable: kidsongs.com registered to Carol Rosenstien >>5412696

>>5412568

>>5412420 (lb)

Registered to Carol Rosenstein

Notable: POTUS Fiat Chrysler will be adding more than 6,500 JOBS in Michigan

Fiat Chrysler will be adding more than 6,500 JOBS in Michigan (Detroit area), doubling its hourly workforce as part of a 4.5 Billion Dollar investment. Thank you Fiat Chrysler. They are all coming back to the USA, it’s where the action is!

Notable: Bloomberg timestamps

PEACE IS THE PRIZE

Not enough space to explain it but, the recent photo drop by Bloomberg contained a timestamp of 21:12 which got me thinking about RUSH's album (and song) by the same name.

Looking at those lyrics, it is obvious that this song was written for today. The lyrics are long which prevents them from appearing here but Anons should look for themselves. In the lyrics, are the cave (the old bomb shelter), Priests that's that rule the world, empty streets, a break-away society, the Galactic Federation, and WWG1WGA, among other comparisons to our current timeline.

The second verse of 2112:

We've taken care of everything

The words you hear the songs you sing

The pictures that give pleasure to your eyes

It's one for all and all for one

We work together common sons

Never need to wonder how or why

We have assumed control

Notable: John podesta cell door will shut on ROger Stone

If anyone feels like they can stomach hearing Podesta do an ABC News podcast.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hillary-clintons-campaign-chairman-victim-2016-campaign-hack/story?id=61235732

For those that can't stomach listening to him, there's a transcript:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-hillary-clintons-campaign-chairman-john-podestas-interview/story?id=61244233

Notable: symbolism in NK summit

Trump poses in front of Ho Chi Minh statue as he signs huge airline trade deals with Vietnamese president while claiming North Korea's potential would also be 'AWESOME' if it 'would denuclearize'

President tweeted Wednesday morning as he prepared for meetings with Vietnamemese leaders

He pointed to Vietnam as an economic model

He touted his dinner with Kim set for Wednesday evening

The country has been on an economic tear since normalizing relations with the U.S. in 1995

Trump touted agreements for Vietnam to buy more U.S. products from Boeing

Two years ago he touted a similar agreement but the trade deficit grew to $37 billion

Vietnam ships shoes, clothing, and seafood products to the U.S.

Earlier Trump posed with Vietnam's president in front of a statue of founder Ho Chi Minh

He said North Korea would be the same if it would 'denuclearize'

Trump called Kim 'my friend'

He has previously said they fell 'in love' at their Singapore summit

Kim forced his uncle to watch colleagues get blown apart with anti-aircraft guns before his own death, according to a defector

Trump's visit was punctuated by blistering testimony from longtime lawyer Michael Cohen

President Donald Trump began his Hanoi summit with Kim Jong Un by predicting progress at his upcoming meal with his counterpart and calling the North Korean dictator 'my friend.'

'Hopefully great things will happen later on,' Trump said in brief remarks Wednesday as he met with the president of Vietnam and a delegation.

Trump also lavished praise upon Vietnam for its 'thriving' economy, while touting economic growth in the U.S. as well – holding out the local economy as a model for North Korea to pursue.

He announced a deal to have Vietnam purchase 10 U.S.-made planes – even as it continues to ship billions worth of sneakers and shrimp to U.S. ports.

Trump also called the relationship between the U.S. and Vietnam an 'example' of what can become of North Korea if it gives up its nuclear weapons.

'You really are an example as to what can happen with good thinking,' Trump said as he sat down with President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6749793/Trump-salutes-friend-Kim-Jong-summit-Vietnam-begins.html

Notable: graphic on hotel hanoi episode

essentially for my own records (and understanding of events) a compilation of all recent No Trip and multiple ID Q posts

Notable: Did CIA have a mole in Putins hacking operation

>>5412307

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6747697/Russia-jails-ex-FSB-agent-cyber-expert-passing-secrets-U-S.htmll

Notable: US health Dept recieves 1303 sex abuse cases

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47377889?SThisFB

Notable: Derek wallbank 2018 distinguished Alumni

moar Gingham…

Notable: First video of captured pilot in Pakistan

https://www.rt.com/news/452527-india-video-captured-pilot/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=push_notifications&utm_campaign=push_notifications

Notable: Rouhani Rejects Resignation of Iran foriegn minister

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-zarif-resignation/rouhani-rejects-resignation-of-iran-foreign-minister-zarif-idUSKCN1QG0LY

Notable: hanoi hotel breakdown

If you mirror the route to the layout and flip it upside down. you get a Q!? And read the message about having to take a convoluted way to destination. its a mirror for having Anons doing complicated work into getting the truth. The # of tic toc is an obvious point to the "source" of pictures of the hotel. Now i wonder if there is relevance to whoever is staying in that room

Notable: Plane fag on the job

>>5412151

Notable: Matt Gaetz threatened Michael Cohen better graphics

RE: >>5411108 (You) 4AM narrative for 2/27: "Matt Gaetz threatened Michael Cohen" (LB)

I made a better and more complete graphic for this notable, baker.

Please update notable with full graphic attached if possible.

Also attaching article if night shift anons haven't read the story yet.

https://dark-to-light.org/2019/02/27/six-democrats-running-in-2020-voted-no-on-providing-medical-care-to-babies-surviving-abortion/

I'm out, night shift. Had fun tonight. Love to you all (no hobo)

Notable: potus tweet Da Nang Dick Blumenthal >>5412124

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1100666476422410240

Notable: Trust In Media Hits Rock Bottom

Trust In Media Hits Rock Bottom: 60% Of Americans Think Journalists Pay Their Sources

While this might not come as a surprise to readers of our humble website, a survey conducted by the Columbia Journalism Review recently confirmed that trust in the American media has hit a new low. According to the survey of 4,214 American adults, which was carried out by Reuters/Ipsos, the media ranked dead last in a list of most trustworthy Washington institutions, behind Congress, the military and - get this - the executive branch.

The survey also confirmed the death of print media by showing that most Americans get their news from television, the Internet and social media. And perhaps most tellingly, of all the demographic groups broken down in the survey, only Democrats said they had "a great deal of confidence" in the press. The report - particularly the findings about journalists paying their sources - was met with shock and incredulity by members of the Washington media establishment, who simply couldn't believe that any American would be so ill-informed as to suspect that any self-respecting journalist would ever offer to pay their sources (can you even imagine?) Though instead of questioning the intelligence of the readers who have been turned off by their hyper-partisan coverage - as always, carried out under the auspices of "objective reporting" - maybe they would be better served by examining what they might do to shift these perceptions.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-26/trust-media-hits-rock-bottom-60-americans-think-journalists-pay-their-sources

Notable: list of journalists colluding with DNC

>>5411986

I'm still working on that fill in the blank…

Check the minus by the 3 from the drop

Notable: Nikki Haley Nominated to Join Boeing Board of Directors

Nikki Haley Nominated to Join Boeing Board of Directors

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and South Carolina Governor Nikky Haley has been nominated to join the Boeing Company board of directors, according to a statement. Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial aircraft, made the announcement on Feb. 26, saying that Haley is to be elected as a director at the company’s annual shareholders meeting on April 29.

Boeing Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg said Boeing would benefit from Haley’s “broad perspectives and combined diplomatic, government and business experience.” “Ambassador Haley brings to Boeing an outstanding record of achievement in government, industry partnership, and successfully driving economic prosperity for communities in America and around the world,” Muilenburg said, according to the statement.

Haley, who left her role as ambassador in December last year, said it was an honor to have the chance to contribute to the company. “Not only is Boeing the largest aerospace company in the world and America’s biggest exporter, it also understands the importance of teamwork and building community through its network of suppliers in all 50 states and around the world,” she said in the statement. If Haley’s nomination is confirmed at the April meeting, she would join the board that currently includes former White House chief of staff for President Ronald Reagan, Kenneth Duberstein; former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for President George W. Bush, Adm. Edmund Giambastiani; and the daughter of former President John F. Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy.

Haley, 47, graduated from Clemson University with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. She was first elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 2004, where she served three terms before being elected Governor of the state between 2011 and 2017, according to the statement. She was then appointed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations by President Donald Trump in January 2017. During her tenure as ambassador, she helped the president achieve his many foreign policies, such as imposing strict sanctions on North Korea, exiting the Iran nuclear deal, and moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Haley resigned from the role on Oct. 9 last year, after serving almost two years as the ambassador. She officially stepped down from the role at the end of 2018. She recently launched her own policy group “Stand for America” that promotes “public policies that strengthen America’s economy, culture, and national security.” According to the website, the group aims to raise awareness about and combat domestic “socialist schemes of higher taxes, burdensome job-destroying regulations, government-run health care, and unsecured borders.” Meanwhile, it also aims to fight to stop the influence of socialist and communist regimes internationally. “We have seen true evil across the globe. We will never stop fighting for what makes America great,” the website states.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/nikki-haley-nominated-to-join-boeing-board-of-directors_2816856.html

Notable: Pics from Clinton Investigation-OIG report

>>5411866

Pics from Clinton Investigation-OIG report we are waiting to see unreacted. If someone has the reporters of interest list handy to see if our friend Derek is on it? Derek has a twitter pic of him being on the governing board of the National Press Club. Rouge FBI or Clown resource? Also check out this curious meeting with Muller and NPC from 08. https://www.press.org/sites/default/files/20080516_mueller.pdf Finally…clowns/press connection with what JFK was working to dismantle? Gingham-bank maybe just a useful "idiot" or more?

Notable: Deal already made?

>>5411741

Deal made.

He confirmed it in his speech at the Texas Rally in El Paso this year.

Notable: German far-right party wins lawsuit against domestic intelligence agency

German far-right party wins lawsuit against domestic intelligence agency

https://intelnews.org/2019/02/27/01-2503/

Notable: More military helicopter drills in L.A. today

More military helicopter drills in L.A. today

>There were 22 heavily armored Apache and Blackhawk helicopters in the skies above Los Angeles on Tuesday — part of an Army training flight to San Diego that required a stopover for refueling at John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana.

>The squadron visible in the San Gabriel Valley, L.A. and Orange County was part of the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade based at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii.

>They were attached to the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Infantry Division (known as the "Arctic Wolves") out of Fort Wainwright, Alaska.

>The troops spent the last month on a "readiness rotation" at the military's National Training Center at Fort Irwin, near Barstow.

>"They were testing their ability to fight in combat. Just to make sure they are ready if called upon," said Master Sgt. Jason Stadel, an Army spokesman.

https://laist.com/2019/02/26/those_were_apache_and_blackhawk_helicopters_flying_over_los_angeles_today_heres_why.php

Notable: >>5411643 Q's previous original pics there is not sloppy border cut, all black

Ok so in q's previous original pics there is not sloppy border cut and the pics go all the way to the edge

example of bloomberg pic–sloppy 1st pic

Now a original q pic

also the background for these pics from bloomberg guy is not dark black like q's photos and lastly on q's originals when I try to edit/resize in my editor i get a bit depth warning– this image has a 16 bit per channel made in edit mode will be saved as 8 bit per channel —only seems to happen with q photos

Notable: Graphic on Q's Tests

Apologies if already posted.

Notable: DEFCON system at DEFCON 4

>>5411020

https://twitter.com/DEFCONWSALERTS/status/1100645845781934080

https://defconwarningsystem.com/2019/02/27/defcon-warning-system-update-2-26-19/

Notable: Mad Hatter and Alice email train also included Musharaff, former Pakistan Chief of Military

The Mad Hatter and Alice email train also included Musharaff (for a real estate deal).

Musharaff was the Pakistan Chief of Military and was found to have plotted to drop a nuke in India. This could of lead to a larger war, possibly giving President Clinton the excuse to enter the middle east.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/JW-v-State-Hillary-emails-July-2-00687-99-100.pdf

Notable: Graphic on the sample in Q 1915 mentioning TicToc

>>5410924 PB

https://twitter.com/tictoc/status/1030162448622538753

As referenced as a Sample in Q 1915.

That Q post is the only one that comes up after a search for tictoc.

Notable: QNN POTUS arrives in Vietnam

Click to Play - QNN POTUS arrives in Vietnam

Notable: 4AM narrative for 2/27: "Matt Gaetz threatened Michael Cohen"

Here's our 4AM narrative for 2/27

"Matt Gaetz threatened Michael Cohen"

Notable: Other Derek Wallbank pics

https://twitter.com/dwallbank/status/1100639000497250304

http://archive.fo/YHEWb

Notable: Trump says 'my friend Kim' has great opportunity at second summit

Trump says 'my friend Kim' has great opportunity at second summit

HANOI (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meet on Wednesday for their second summit, betting their personal relationship can break a stalemate over the North’s nuclear weapons and end more than 70 years of hostility. Despite little progress toward his stated goal of ridding North Korea of its nuclear weapons since first meeting Kim in Singapore last year, Trump has said he is fully committed to his personal diplomacy with Kim. Trump said late last year he and Kim “fell in love”, and on the eve of his departure for the second summit said they had developed “a very, very good relationship”.

Whether the bonhomie can move them beyond summit pageantry to substantive progress on eliminating Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal that threatens the United States is the question that will dominate their talks in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi. “Vietnam is thriving like few places on earth. North Korea would be the same, and very quickly, if it would denuclearize,” Trump said on Twitter. “The potential is AWESOME, a great opportunity, like almost none other in history, for my friend Kim Jong Un. We will know fairly soon - Very Interesting!”

Trump and Kim will meet at the Metropole hotel at 6:30 p.m. (1130 GMT) for a 20-minute, one-on-one chat followed by a dinner with aides, the White House said. The elegant interior of the 118-year-old Metropole thronged with security and diplomatic personnel from both sides - some snapping pictures - as hotel staff made final preparations. On Thursday, the two leaders will hold “a series of back and forth” meetings, the White House said.The venue for those meetings has not been announced.

In Singapore, they pledged to work toward denuclearization and permanent peace on the Korean peninsula. North and South Korea have been technically still at war since their 1950-53 conflict, with the Americans backing the South, ended in a truce, not a treaty. The Singapore meeting - the first between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader - ended with great fanfare but little substance over how to dismantle North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. Both sides are likely to feel pressure to agree on specific measures this time - what concrete steps North Korea will take to give up the weapons, and what the United States will offer in return. While the United States is demanding North Korea give up all of its nuclear and missile programs, the North wants to see the removal of a U.S. nuclear umbrella for South Korea. U.S. intelligence officials have said there is no sign North Korea will ever give up its entire arsenal of cherished nuclear weapons, which it sees as its guarantee of national security, while analysts say it won’t commit to significant disarmament unless punishing U.S.-led economic sanctions are eased. Trump has held out the prospect of easing them if North Korea does something “meaningful”.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-summit/trump-says-my-friend-kim-has-great-opportunity-at-second-summit-idUSKCN1QF2Y7?il=0

Notable: >>5410646, >>5410657 Derek Wallbank knows Q replied to a post with his pics

We spooked him

Notable: Trump says he appreciates commercial order that Vietnam has made

Trump says he appreciates commercial order that Vietnam has made

HANOI (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he appreciated the commercial order that Vietnam had made as well as the fact that the U.S. trade deficit with the Southeast Asian nation was coming down. At a lunch with the Vietnamese prime minister and other officials, Trump also said he was looking forward to his meeting Wednesday evening with Kim Jong Un and that the North Korean leader wanted to do something great. Ahead of the lunch meeting, Vietnamese carriers VietJet and Bamboo Airways signed deals with Boeing Co to buy 110 planes worth more than $15 billion.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-trump-lunch/trump-says-he-appreciates-commercial-order-that-vietnam-has-made-idUSKCN1QG0HA?il=0

Notable: Bomb bunker, war reporters and Charlie Chaplin: Hanoi's storied Metropole hosts Kim-Trump summit

Bomb bunker, war reporters and Charlie Chaplin: Hanoi's storied Metropole hosts Kim-Trump summit

HANOI (Reuters) - A storied French colonial-era hotel once used by the North Vietnamese government to house foreign guests during the Vietnam War is set to host U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as they meet for a second nuclear summit on Wednesday. The Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi has hosted dignitaries and celebrities from Charlie Chaplin on his honeymoon in 1936 to “Hanoi Jane” Fonda during her 1970s anti-war campaign and even Trump himself on a recent visit to the Vietnamese capital. The Metropole could begin a new chapter as a symbol of peace if Trump and Kim, as some officials in Seoul and Washington expect, formally declare an end to the last remaining Cold War conflict after their two-day summit.

The United States and North Korea are technically still at war, because the 1950-53 Korean War ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. “We hope Trump and Kim make some progress with their denuclearization and hopefully open North Korea to the outside world,” said Stephen Fries, a doctor from Colorado whose long-planned family trip was disrupted by preparations for the summit. He was among two dozen Metropole guests touring an underground air raid bunker at the hotel used during the Vietnam War that was rediscovered by chance in 2011 while the hotel was renovating its poolside Bamboo bar. Trump and Kim will meet at the Metropole at 6:30 pm (1130 GMT) on Wednesday, where the two will have a 20-minute one-on-one chat followed by a dinner with aides, the White House said. “It’s about time there is a deal. Vietnam had been our enemy, now they are kind of a friend. I hope North Korea would become exactly like Vietnam, and maybe use it an example to follow for its own economic development,” Fries said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-scene/bomb-bunker-war-reporters-and-charlie-chaplin-hanois-storied-metropole-hosts-kim-trump-summit-idUSKCN1QG05Z?il=0

Notable: The ‘Russian bots’ that weren't: Twitter backtracks on troll claims, media ignores updated info

The ‘Russian bots’ that weren't: Twitter backtracks on troll claims, media ignores updated info

witter quietly revised its public database of ‘Russian bot’ accounts earlier this month, removing 228 accounts it previously said were “connected to Russia”— but the admission has gone almost completely unnoticed by the media.

Bloomberg reported on the “burst of activity” from the bot accounts and claimed that Russia's “social-media trolling operation” was “stepping up its Twitter presence to new heights.”

Fast-forward to 2019 and Twitter has removed 228 of these accounts from the database, saying they had “initially misidentified” them as being linked to Russia, but nobody in the media seems to have noticed.

In fact, Bloomberg is the only major US outlet which bothered to correct the story to reflect reality, admitting that Twitter’s changes to the dataset “invalidate central portions” of its original report and that there was “no surge” in this so-called Russian bot activity at the time in question. Oops!

Pivot to Venezuela!

Interestingly, the highlighted accounts have now been linked to Venezuela, another country the US government just so happens to have bad blood with.

In a tweet, Twitter’s “head of site integrity” Yoel Roth said that the company can now “more confidently associate” the 228 accounts with Venezuela. Roth’s short tweet thread on the misidentification was met with little interest receiving only a few retweets and no attention from media figures who supposedly actively follow any and all news remotely related to Russian activity online.

https://www.rt.com/usa/452503-twitter-backtracks-russian-bots-media/

Notable: >>5410521 At least 3 Pakistani combat jets enter Indian side of Kashmir, intercepted

At least 3 Pakistani combat jets enter Indian side of Kashmir, intercepted – Indian official

Indian Air Force jets have intercepted at least three Pakistani military jets after they crossed into Indian airspace over the disputed Kashmir area, Indian officials reported. It comes a day after an Indian air raid in Pakistan.

Amid the reported Pakistani incursion, Indian authorities shut down the Sheikh ul-Alam International Airport in Srinagar, Kashmir, local police told Reuters.

DETAILS TO FOLLOW

https://www.rt.com/news/452518-pakistan-jets-enter-kashmir/

Notable: Trump Threatens a Second Embargo of Cuba

Trump Threatens a Second Embargo of Cuba

The Trump administration is threatening to unleash a flood of lawsuits involving Cuba, which no U.S. president has ever done. It has set a deadline of March 2 to announce whether it will create, in the words of the National Lawyers Guild, “a second embargo” of Cuba — “one that would be very difficult to dismantle in the future.”

Trump may give current U.S. citizens standing to sue in U.S. courts even if they were Cuban citizens when the Cuban government nationalized their property after the 1959 Revolution. They would be able to bring lawsuits against U.S. and foreign companies that allegedly profit from the nationalized properties.

In accordance with international law, the Cuban government had offered compensation to U.S. nationals for the taking of their property, as I explain below. If Trump permits myriad new lawsuits to proceed, it would unleash a tsunami of litigation that would harm U.S. companies and punish the Cuban people even more.

For 59 years, the United States has maintained a cruel embargo against Cuba.

“The embargo on Cuba is the most comprehensive set of U.S. sanctions on any country, including the other countries designated by the U.S. government to be state sponsors of terrorism — Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria,” according to the U.S. government.

In 1960, the Eisenhower administration declared a partial embargo on trade with Cuba in an attempt to pressure Cuba to change its form of government. The embargo was prompted by a secret State Department memorandum that proposed “a line of action which, while as adroit and inconspicuous as possible, makes the greatest inroads in denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.”

This type of action is illegal under international law, according to Idriss Jazairy, the U.N. special rapporteur concerned with the negative impact of sanctions.

“Coercion, whether military or economic, must never be used to seek a change in government in a sovereign state,” said Jazairy. “The use of sanctions by outside powers to overthrow an elected government is in violation of all norms of international law.”

That includes the Charter of the Organization of American States and the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States.

Nonetheless, John F. Kennedy expanded the embargo in 1962 and every U.S. president since has continued it, hurting the Cuban people, but not succeeding in overthrowing Cuba’s government.

In 1996, Bill Clinton signed the Helms-Burton Act, which codified the embargo into law so that no president could unilaterally lift the sanctions against Cuba. Although Barack Obama took some limited steps toward normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba, Helms-Burton would have prevented him from lifting the embargo.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-threatens-second-embargo-cuba/5669728

Notable: On the Metropole Hanoi

Metropole Hanoi 1901

French Colonial architects, André Ducamp and Gustave-Émile Dumoutier.

The French keep cropping up.

https://www.historichotelsworldwide.com/hotels-resorts/sofitel-legend-metropole-hanoi/history.php

Notable: Scavino45 Tweets Video of POTUS in Hanoi

President @realDonaldTrump arriving at the Office of Government Hall in Hanoi, Vietnam…

twitter.com/Scavino45/status/1100633574833876992

Notable: James Woods deleted tweet: Q1

Yo Nightshift!

I posted this twice earlier and not many noticed. James Woods tweeted "Q1" earlier today and quickly deleted it. No idea what it means, or if/how related, but c'mon, thats just a big coincidence!?

Notable: Cardinal George Pell taken into custody after his bail was revoked

Cardinal George Pell taken into custody after his bail was revoked

https://www.9news.com.au/2019/02/27/09/55/george-pell-convicted-court-hearing-appeal-catholic-church-news

Notable: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Health: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

>>5409869 >>5410009

Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Health: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

https://heavy.com/news/2017/11/ruth-bader-ginsburg-health-age-net-worth/

I haven't seen much said of her heart condition, even after her most recent health condition was revealed

Notable: Globalist Business Groups with Koch, Bush Ties Dominate Immigration Talks at White House

Globalist Business Groups with Koch, Bush Ties Dominate Immigration Talks at White House

Globalist-aligned business organizations with ties to the billionaire Koch brothers, the Bush dynasty, and Republican plutocrat donor class have dominated talks at the White House over a larger legal immigration deal.

Plans to overhaul the legal immigration system — where more than 1.2 million legal immigrants are admitted to the U.S. every year — have been led in the White House by adviser Jared Kushner and Brooke Rollins, formerly of the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

As Breitbart News has reported, White House officials have floated two immigration deals in the last month: One that would give amnesty to nearly two million illegal aliens and another that would expand businesses’ ability to import foreign workers instead of hiring qualified Americans.

The groups consulted over the larger immigration deals include:

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

The Heritage Foundation

Association of Builders and Contractors

Faith and Freedom Coalition

Council on National Policy

George W. Bush Center

Select Milk Producers

Texas Public Policy Foundation

Americans for Prosperity

Libre Initiative

League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)

Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

Business groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Association of Builders and Contractors, and the Koch brothers’ Koch Industries have opposed any cuts to legal immigration levels to boost Americans’ wages and prefer expanding employment visas so businesses have easy access to cheaper, foreign labor.

The Association of Builders and Contractors, for instance, have supported making it easier for foreign nationals to obtain green cards in the U.S., along with advocating for market-based visas where foreign workers would be allowed to take U.S. jobs so long as American industry claims there are no Americans available to fill working and middle-class jobs.

Advocacy groups like the George W. Bush Center, the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity and the Libre Initiative, LULAC, and the Texas Public Policy Foundation likewise have backed policy initiatives to make it easier for employers to outsource U.S. jobs to foreign workers, amnesty for illegal aliens, and an expansion of already historically high legal immigration levels.

The George W. Bush Center recently promoted plans that would allow businesses to import foreign workers as they wish, bypassing America’s working and middle-class workforce and depleting growing blue-collar U.S. wages.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/26/globalist-business-immigration-talks-white-house/

Notable: WH Pool report on the trade deal

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Date: February 27, 2019 at 12:28:44 PM GMT+

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All, 1,000 apologies for the typos — everything being done on the run, literally. Resending this statement, correcting typos!

From a senior administration official regarding the deals that were just signed at Vietnam’s presidential palace.

“Though these deals worth over $21 billion VietJet will buy 100 Boeing 737-Max jets and 215 GE/CFM joint venture engines; bamboo airways will buy 10 Boeing 787-9 jets; and Vietnam airlines will buy $100 million in services and technology from Sabre Corporation. These deals will support more than 83,000 American jobs and provide increased safety and reliability for Vietnamese International travelers.”

Attendees of the signings:

Americans:

Kevin McCallister - President and chief executive officer of Boeing commercial airplanes

Allen Paxson, Vice President of GE aviation

Vietnamese:

Nguyen Phu Trong- President vietnam

Nguyen thanh hung- nice chairman of VietJet Air

Nguyen Thi Phurong Thao- president and CEO VietJet

Vivian Salama

WHITE HOUSE REPORTER

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Notable: Pic of Test 9

>>5408709 (pb)

For anyone still confused - there's your Test 9.

No tripcode but ID match chekked and confirmed.

Notable: Full Text of Michael Cohen’s Prepared Testimony Before Wednesday’s Hearing

Full Text of Michael Cohen’s Prepared Testimony Before Wednesday’s Hearing

https://breaking911.com/breaking-full-text-of-michael-cohens-prepared-testimony-before-wednesdays-hearing/

Notable: Jared Kushner Tells Sky News Arabia His Plan Is to Eliminate Borders with Palestinians and Israel

Whoa! Jared Kushner Tells Sky News Arabia His Plan Is to Eliminate Borders with Palestinians and Israel

Top Trump aide Jared Kushner told Sky News Arabia that the administration’s goal is to eliminate borders with Israel and the Palestinians.

Jared Kushner: The goal of resolving the borders is really to eliminate borders. And so if you can eliminate borders and have peace, less fear of terror. You can have freer flow of goods, freer flow of people and that will create more opportunities.

Israel has one of the securest borders in the world. This is intentional. When Israel had porous borders Palestinians were blowing themselves up in pizza parlors.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/whoa-jared-kushner-tells-israeli-news-his-plan-is-to-eliminate-borders-with-palestinians-and-israel-video/

Notable: >>5409650, >>5409756, >>5409706, >>5409848, >>5409851, >>5409892, >>5409930, >>5409988 Bloomberg posted pics on twitter before Q replied

What's this. Is he claiming to have taken the photos?

Notable: House votes to block Trump's national emergency declaration 245–182. 13 Rs voted to block it

ROLL CALL: House votes to block Trump's national emergency declaration 245–182. 13 Rs voted to block it:

twitter.com/NateOnTheHill/status/1100548235645599744

clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll094.xml

Notable: BREXIT: PARLIAMENT TO DECIDE BETWEEN NO DEAL AND DELAY

BREXIT: PARLIAMENT TO DECIDE BETWEEN NO DEAL AND DELAY

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s bumpy journey out of the European Union took a major turn Tuesday, as Prime Minister Theresa May handed the steering wheel to Parliament, giving lawmakers the power to slam on the brakes and divert Britain away from a disruptive and chaotic Brexit.

Bowing to pressure from within her own government to avert a damaging “no-deal” Brexit, May told legislators she would give them three choices: approve the divorce agreement she has struck with the EU, vote to leave the bloc on March 29 without a deal, or ask the EU to delay Brexit by up to three months.

May said the promises were “commitments I am making as prime minister and I will stick by them.”

It is the first time she has conceded that Britain may not leave the EU on March 29, the date fixed two years ago and enshrined in U.K. law as departure day.

With that date just over a month away, the government has not been able to win parliamentary approval for its agreement with the EU on withdrawal terms and future relations. Anxiety over the standoff is intensifying since a chaotic “no-deal” Brexit could cause disruptions for businesses and people in both Britain and the 27 remaining EU countries.

May promised lawmakers they would get to vote again on her deal by March 12. If it is rejected, lawmakers will vote the next day on whether to leave the bloc without an agreement. If the no-deal option is defeated, they will vote on whether to seek a delay to Brexit.

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0005571714

Notable: Boeing nominates Haley to its board

>>5408371

Notable: Ed Buck lawsuit

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6749961/Disgraced-political-donor-Ed-Buck-hit-wrongful-death-lawsuit.html

Notable: POTUS deals - VietJet signs firm order to buy 100 new Boeing 737 Max planes

BREAKING: In a deal witnessed by U.S. President Donald Trump and Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong, VietJet signs firm order to buy 100 new Boeing 737 Max planes worth $12.7 billion at list price - Reuters

CST

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1100616979965267970

Notable: Pell in the cell

First night in jail for ol Cardinal cunt coming up.

https://mobile.twitter.com/abcmelbourne/status/1100609367693451265?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Notable: >>5408348 Ed Henry pics from source in hotel

From last bread…

>>5407369, >>5407400 Ed Henry just showed these pics on Fox right now

I’m reposting since it was late last bread. Here’s the pic of the tv when Ed Henry told Laura he got the pic exclusively from a source inside the hotel. Also the one with similar angle Q posted.

Notable: Republicans winning in CT

https://twitter.com/GOPChairwoman/status/1100595321300836354

late night winning in CT

Notable: >>5407542 Court rejects challenge to Mueller’s appoinment in case brought by Roger Stone

Court rejects challenge to Mueller’s appointment in case brought by Roger Stone aide

Michael Balsamo and Jessica Gresko, Associated Press Published 11:19 a.m. ET Feb. 26, 2019

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld Robert Mueller’s appointment as special counsel after his authority had been challenged by a witness who refused to appear before a grand jury related to the Russia investigation.

The case was brought by Andrew Miller, an aide to longtime Trump campaign adviser and confidant Roger Stone. Prosecutors wanted him to testify as part of Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and ties to President Donald Trump’s campaign.

In the legal fight, Miller argued that Mueller hadn’t been properly appointed, making his grand jury subpoena invalid. A lower court held Miller in contempt for refusing to testify.

Miller’s attorney Paul Kamenar has said the issue of Mueller’s appointment is bound to be decided by the Supreme Court.

Stone was arrested last month and has pleaded not guilty to charges he lied to Congress, engaged in witness tampering and obstruction. The charges stem from conversations he had during the campaign about WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group that released material stolen from Democratic groups, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

So am I reading this right? The legitimacy of Mueller being a SC is going to the Supreme Court?? I am also digging to see when Stone is due next in court.

Notable: >>5407400 Ed Henry just showed these pics on Fox right now

>>5406506 lb

I see

Notable: Apps Giving Health Data to Facebook Without Permission

Popular Apps Are Giving Your Ovulation and Health Data to Facebook Without Permission

Facebook has found itself in the grips of yet another scandal brewing around the globe, this time involving extremely personal information. It was revealed last week that the social media giant has been collecting vast amounts of personal data through about 11 popular health and fitness apps, without people’s knowledge.

The latest issue, which casts a grim light on Facebook’s respect for users’ consent and personal data, comes on the heels of a number of scandals over the past year – ranging from the furor over last year’s Cambridge Analytica data harvesting operation to a recent report by TechCrunch revealing that the company secretly paid users, including minors as young as 13, to install an app that would siphon network and web data from phones in direct violation of Apple’s developer terms.

The Wall Street Journal‘s new report reveals that Facebook has used several apps to collect deeply sensitive user data that goes far beyond phone habits or web history, and includes users’ weight, blood pressure, and even ovulation status. After testing 70 apps, WSJ found 11 apps that have been leaking data to Facebook, even in cases when the user is logged out of the social media platform or doesn’t have an account at all.

The fitness and health apps, which were equipped with Facebook-provided developer software, were primarily meant to determine ad placement. Apps included the highly popular period-tracking app Flo Period and Ovulation Tracker – which claims to have 25 million active users – which informed Facebook when users were menstruating or if users indicated that they were attempting to become pregnant.

The Journal’s testing also revealed that Instant Heart Rate: HR Monitor sent heart rate data to the company while home sales and rental search app Realtor informed Facebook of the listings viewed by users as well as the prices of homes and those marked as “favorites.”

Facebook is able to collect the data due to the built-in features of its Software Development Kit (SDK), the open source software tools that allow developers to create apps that integrate with the social platform for the purpose of ad targeting based on user data.

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2019/02/popular-apps-are-giving-your-ovulation-and-health-data-to-facebook-without-permission.html

Notable: ISIS gold incoming

Gold deal between United States and Daesh: Mission accomplished

Deir Ezzor, SANA – A few days after reports from local sources in the Syrian al-Jazeera area about the gold deal between the United States and Daesh (ISIS) terrorist organization were published, new information emerged to confirm these reports.

Information suggest that the US occupation forces in the Syrian al-Jazeera area made a deal with Daesh terrorists, by which Washington gets tens of tons of gold that the terror organization had stolen in exchange for providing safe passage for the terrorists and their leaders from the areas in Deir Ezzor where they are located.

Information from local sources said that US army helicopters have already transported the gold bullions under cover of darkness on Sunday, before transporting them to the United States.

The sources said that tens of tons that Daesh had been keeping in their last hotbed in al-Baghouz area in Deir Ezzor countryside have been handed to the Americans, adding up to other tons of gold that Americans have found in other hideouts for Daesh, making the total amount of gold taken by the Americans to the US around 50 tons, leaving only scraps for the SDF militias that serve them.

Recently, sources said that the area where Daesh leaders and members have barricaded themselves in contains around 40 tons of gold and tens of millions of dollars which had been stolen from various areas in Syria and Iraq by the terror organization.

Eyewitness accounts had said that US army helicopters transported large boxes full of Daesh “spoils,” specifically gold, from al-Dashisha area in the southern countryside of Hasaka.

https://www.sana.sy/en/?p=159721

Notable: Planned Parenthood President kvetching

Planned Parenthood President Attacks President Trump After Democrats Vote in Support of Infanticide

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/planned-parenthood-leader-attacks-president-trump-after-democrats-vote-in-support-of-infanticide/

Notable: Podesta Group in Ukraine

@JudicialWatch

JW released State Dept docs showing the Clinton-linked Podesta Group run by Tony Podesta (the brother of John Podesta who was a WH Counselor & then was Clinton's 2016 campaign chair) worked for a pro-Russian Ukrainian political group ("Party of Regions").

Notable: Roundup in the brews

Toxic Weed Killer Glyphosate Found in 19 of 20 Beers and Wines Tested – Including Organic

Glyphosate—the active ingredient in Monsanto‘s Roundup weedkiller that some studies have linked to cancer—is also a secret ingredient in nearly 20 popular beers and wines.

That’s the finding of a new study from the education group U.S. PIRG, which found glyphosate in 19 of 20 wine and beer brands tested, including organic labels and brews

https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/02/26/toxic-weed-killer-glyphosate-found-in-19-of-20-beers-and-wines-tested-including-organic/

Notable: Unsealed Indictment- Construction company in Virgin Islands

UNSEALED 2/26/19 St. Thomas, USVI – Owner of Construction Company and Three Others Charged with Disaster Fraud and Identity Theft in the United States Virgin Islands

St. Thomas, USVI –United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today that charges have been unsealed against Juli Campbell and three others for fraud related to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) Sheltering and Temporary Essential Power (STEP) Program.

The STEP Program provides federal funds for essential repairs to homes damaged by Hurricanes Irma and Maria. According to the Indictment returned by the Grand Jury in the case, Campbell operated Campbell Development, LLC, which was a subcontractor performing STEP-funded work in St. Croix, VI. Campbell and her co-defendants are alleged to have executed a scheme whereby they submitted fraudulent invoices related to a STEP-funded subcontract, even including on such invoices the names of workers who were not actually on the island.

"The Department of Justice is committed to ensuring that federal dollars are used for their intended purposes," said U.S. Attorney Shappert. "The United States Attorney’s Office for the Virgin Islands is especially committed to making certain that federal funds intended for the victims of natural disasters are accounted for and used consistent with FEMA’s directives."

"The DHS OIG takes any and all allegations of fraudulent activity seriously and intends to hold accountable those who try to use natural disasters such as Hurricane Maria to take advantage of others," said Special Agent in Charge Jay H. Donly of the DHS OIG Miami Field Office. "The DHS OIG will continue to use its investigative resources to stop those who use these circumstances for personal and illegal gain."

https://www.justice.gov/usao-vi/pr/owner-construction-company-and-three-others-charged-disaster-fraud-and-identity-theft

Notable: @JamesWoods slams Bernie on student loans: "save your breath, commie"

@RealJamesWoods

James Woods Retwitteó Bernie Sanders

The ones with that kind of debt are usually majoring in “gender studies” and other nonsense. We are never paying for that crap. Save your breath, Commie.

Notable: , >>5406735 Pictures from Hanoi Metropole Hotel

We are at WAR.

Tomorrow is about PEACE.

The future is ours.

Notable: 55 KIM train

>>5380099

55 Kim 55

Notable: Mnuchin past movie, King Arthur

Anons. Got a query.

Have we done a dig on Mnuchin?

I only ask cuz, here I am watching King Arthur, (Guy Ritchie director…2017-18) and Steve, my boy, happens to be a producer on this flick. Steve Mnuchin. Yep, that one.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6518391/

This the guy, quietly dismantling the Fed?

Notable: Colorado moves to bypass Electoral College

Colorado Moves To Bypass Electoral College To Stop Trump: Will Assign Electoral Votes To Popular Vote Winner

Certain political elements within the United States simply can’t deal with the fact that our Founders created a voting system that ensured limitations on mob rule stemming from a handful of cities throughout the country. To protect the rights of all Americans, including those living in smaller rural counties, they came up with the electoral college, a method by which all Americans from varying backgrounds and ideologies can be represented during a Presidential election.

In 2016, Hillary Clinton officially won the Popular Vote, garnering more total votes than Donald Trump, but because of an Electoral College victory, Trump ultimately became President.

Every time a Republican happens to win a Presidency, Democrats argue that the Electoral College is an archaic election method not representative of a democratic government.

Up until now there was nothing they can do about it, but Colorado has come up with a plan that, at the very least, will likely wind up in front of the U.S. Supreme Court.

In the next election, Colorado aims to assign all electoral votes to the winner of the national Popular Vote, rather than then to the individual who brings in the most votes in their State, essentially invalidating the will of their own State citizens. Somehow, this makes sense to Colorado governor Jared Polis:

“I’ve long supported electing the president by who gets the most votes,” Polis told The Hill. “It’s a way to move towards direct election of the president.”

Colorado will become the 12th state to join the national popular vote interstate compact. Those 12 states and the District of Columbia, which has also passed a popular-vote bill, account for 181 electoral votes, just under 90 shy of the 270 votes a presidential candidate needs to win the White House.

The compact will not go into effect until the coalition includes states that add up to 270 electoral votes or more. Once it does go into effect, states that are part of the coalition would award their electoral votes en masse to the candidate who wins the national popular vote.

Source: The Hill

Eleven more states are currently working through similar legislation. If successful, some 261 electoral college votes would end up being decided by the national popular vote rather than the traditional electoral voting system used in previous elections.

While the U.S. Constitution establishes the Electoral College as the method by which a President is elected, it does not specify how each state chooses to assign its Electoral votes.

This will likely lead to Constitutional challenges from both sides.

Our view: This is how a Republic dies, should the Supreme Court fail to uphold current laws surrounding how votes are assigned and calculated.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-26/colorado-moves-bypass-electoral-college-stop-trump-will-assign-electoral-votes

Notable: >>5406206 Missiles on the move

Russian Nuclear ICBM Stuck In Moscow Traffic Jam

According to Defense Blog, the RS-24 Yars is a solid-propellant ICBM with MIRVed (multiple independently targetable vehicle) warheads, and can maneuver mid-flight to avoid enemy defense systems.

It cannot, however evade Moscow traffic.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-26/russian-nuclear-icbm-stuck-moscow-traffic-jam

On the Q clock for today February 26 2019

Notable: GOP Train crash trial update

Drug evidence, testimony tossed from fatal GOP train crash trial

Crucial drug-related evidence and testimony will be excluded from the trial of a trash truck driver charged in a deadly 2018 train crash.

In Albemarle Circuit Court on Tuesday, Judge Cheryl Higgins granted a defense motion to exclude expert testimony and evidence that the commonwealth argued would prove Dana Naylor Jr. was impaired by THC at the time of the crash.

Naylor is charged with involuntary manslaughter and maiming under the influence after authorities said he drove a Time Disposal trash truck onto the tracks in Crozet, colliding with a chartered Amtrak train carrying Republican members of Congress, killing Christopher Foley and gravely injuring Dennis Eddy.

However, the argument for the DUI charge has been thrown into uncertainty after Higgins ruled to exclude testimony from Dr. Jayne Thatcher, a forensic toxicology expert.

Outside the presence of the jury, Higgins listened to testimony from Thatcher about levels of THC — tetrahydrocannabinol, the main active ingredient in marijuana — found in Naylor’s blood and whether that could be used to prove impairment.

Approximately five hours after the crash on Jan. 31, 2018, the Albemarle County Police Department obtained a warrant to draw Naylor’s blood. The warrant was obtained using claims from Detective Mike Wells that Naylor “smelled of beer,” during an interview at the University of Virginia Medical Center. According to earlier testimony, Naylor’s blood sample tested negative for alcohol but tested positive for THC.

continued….

https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/courts/drug-evidence-testimony-tossed-from-fatal-train-crash-trial/article_42259010-3a32-11e9-8357-c33ed604d282.amp.html

Notable: North Korea summit

https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1100586269636206592

Notable: Long Island train drash

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1100585850948206592

Long Island Rail Road train strikes vehicle on tracks in Westbury; at least 3 dead

WATCH LIVE: https://breaking911.com/developing-3-dead-after-train-strikes-vehicle-on-tracks-in-nyc-train-derails/ …

Notable: Debt Ceiling Pressures

@washingtonpost

Treasury to run out of money in September unless Congress acts, CBO says

Notable: Former U.S. AG Whitaker to clarify House testimony

Former U.S. AG Whitaker to clarify House testimony: Nadler

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker agreed to meet with lawmakers to clarify his testimony, a congressional leader said on Tuesday, referring to an appearance where Whitaker was quizzed about whether President Donald Trump had sought to influence investigations. “I want to thank Mr. Whitaker for volunteering to meet with us to clarify his @HouseJudiciary testimony,” Representative Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, tweeted, saying he hoped to schedule Whitaker in the “coming days.”

Lawmakers have not said what Whitaker will address from his Feb. 8 testimony, which Nadler previously said was “unsatisfactory, incomplete, or contradicted by other evidence.” But the most persistent questions then focused on whether Whitaker had contact with Trump about an investigation into hush-money payments to women during Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal attorney. The Justice Department, which has already said Whitaker stands by his testimony, had no immediate comment.

The brief tenure of Whitaker as head of the Justice Department ended on Feb. 14 when the Senate confirmed Trump’s choice of permanent Attorney General William Barr. The Judiciary Committee has obtained possible evidence suggesting that Trump asked Whitaker about possibly changing the prosecutor in charge of the hush-money probe, said a person familiar with the matter. A House Judiciary Committee spokesman and a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment.

If true, such a request by Trump could bolster Democratic efforts to show that the president has sought to influence law enforcement investigations against him and his associates. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is said to be close to ending a 21-month investigation into whether Russia meddled in the 2016 election to help Trump; whether Trump’s campaign colluded with Moscow; and whether Trump has since obstructed justice. Russia has denied meddling. Trump has denied any collusion. The Mueller probe has clouded his presidency for many months.

Nadler’s panel has information suggesting that Trump asked Whitaker if U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman could take control of an investigation of Cohen by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, said the source who asked not to be identified. Berman is a former law partner of another Trump attorney, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Trump dismissed as false a report in the New York Times last week about a similar request to Whitaker.

Congressional investigators now have information that such a request was made and that Whitaker provided misleading testimony to the panel while under oath during his contentious Feb. 8 hearing, the source said. In that session, Whitaker testified he had not talked to Trump about the probe and had not interfered with it in any way. He also denied media reports that claimed that Trump had lashed out at Whitaker after he learned Cohen was pleading guilty to lying to Congress about a proposed Trump Tower in Moscow.

Nadler said then that media reports contradicted Whitaker’s testimony and that “several individuals” had direct knowledge of phone calls Whitaker denied receiving from the White House.

Cohen was sentenced in December to three years in prison after pleading guilty to campaign finance violations, including making payments to adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, and former Playboy model Karen McDougal. Cohen said he made those payments at the direction of Trump. Both women have claimed they had affairs with Trump. He has denied having sex with Daniels and denied McDougal’s claim. Cohen testified behind closed doors to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday. He is expected to testify publicly on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-whitaker/former-u-s-ag-whitaker-to-clarify-house-testimony-nadler-idUSKCN1QG06U?il=0

Notable: Hannity Sky Falling In Hanoi

Hannity made a comment that sounded like a crumb re: KJU train vs. plane "maybe his plane is in the shop getting fixed"

Also specifically said "and the media said the sky is falling"

WATCH HANNITY IN HANOI, LIVE NOW

TRUMP INTERVIEW MINUTES AWAY

Notable: Blackhawk & Apache at JWA during military exercises

Blackhawk and Apache helicopters stop at JWA during military exercises

https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-jwa-helicopter-20190226-story.html

Notable: Nevada regulators fine Wynn Resorts $20M in settlement re: misconduct claims

NEVADA REGULATORS FINE WYNN $20 GORILLION IN SETTLEMENT

BOSTON (Reuters) - Nevada casino regulators said on Tuesday they had fined Wynn Resorts Ltd $20 million in a settlement with the company involving misconduct claims against former chief executive Steve Wynn.

The casino company, which has operations in Las Vegas and Macau, said the conclusion of the review by the Nevada Gaming Commission was a step forward for the company and its new leadership.

The settlement was previously disclosed but not the amount of the fine.

Founder Wynn resigned as CEO of the company in 2018 following claims he subjected women who worked for him to unwanted advances. He has denied the accusations.

Steve Wynn was not immediately reachable for comment.

https://www.marketscreener.com/business-leaders/Steve-Wynn-179/news/Nevada-regulators-fine-Wynn-Resorts-20-million-in-settlement–28074094/?countview=0

Notable: Force organ harvesting: overseas patients flocking to China for transplants

Forced Organ Harvesting: Overseas Patients Flocking to China for Transplants

Legislation to curb transplant tourists receiving illicit organs can have a big impact, says rights lawyer

China’s organ transplant industry grew exponentially in the early 2000s and today, China is the go-to country for transplant tourists from around the world. Despite the fact that organ donation is minimal in China, organs are plentiful, and the wait-times range between a few days and two months—something out of the question in any other country. Furthermore, patients have reported that their transplant surgeries were scheduled ahead of time. The stark reality of what this means was brought home to Israeli heart transplant surgeon Dr. Jacob Lavee in 2005, when a patient told him he was going to China for a heart transplant and the operation was already scheduled for a specific date. Realizing that this could only be the result of forced organ harvesting, Dr. Lavee spearheaded the crafting of Israel’s Organ Transplant Law which came into effect in 2008, essentially banning the purchase and sale of human organs. The move has had a significant impact in reducing transplant tourism to China from Israel, according to testimony at a committee hearing on Parliament Hill on Feb. 26. The hearing was related to similar legislation in the works in Canada. The private member’s bill will be discussed again by the committee on Feb. 27.

A report by Organs Watch, an organization based at the University of California, identified transplant tourists from Canada as among the top organ-buyers in the world. Dr. Jeff Zaltzman, the head of renal transplants at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, has said that at least 50 of his patients have gone to China for transplants.

“Killing to Live: The Dark Side of Transplant Tourism in China,” a 2017 documentary aired by Korea’s Chosen TV, reveals that an estimated 3,000 Koreans a year have received organs in China since 2000. The documentary is about an investigation of the organ transplant centre at Tianjin First Central Hospital in China. The hospital guaranteed organs from “healthy, young donors” on demand. The hospital, which has 500 transplant beds, has three floors dedicated to international transplant patients and the operating room functions around the clock, 24 hours a day. “In China, the organs come easy. I don’t know where they come from. It takes just two hours for them to bring the fresh organs here,” a senior nurse told the filmmakers, adding that a liver costs US$130,000.

Patients from other countries go to China for organs as well. The website of the Zhongshan Hospital in Shanghai states that the hospital has attracted patients from more than 10 countries and regions, including the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

They released two investigative reports, one in 2006 and one in 2016, showing that non-consenting religious and political prisoners—primarily Falun Dafa adherents detained for their beliefs—are being subjected to forced organ harvesting while alive. In other words, they are being killed for their organs.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/forced-organ-harvesting-overseas-patients-flocking-to-china-for-transplants_2816817.html

Notable: ISIS supporter sentenced to 16 years for aiding and abetting

Department of Justice

Office of Public Affairs

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

ISIS Supporter Sentenced to Almost 16 Years for Attempting to Provide Material Support to Foreign Terrorist Organization and Identity Theft

Defendant Admitted Creating Twitter and Facebook Accounts for People He Believed Were Supporters of ISIS

Amer Sinan Alhaggagi was sentenced today to 188 months for attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and identity theft charges. Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers of the National Security Division, United States Attorney David L. Anderson for the Northern District of California and FBI Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett of the San Francisco Field Office made the announcement. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Charles R. Breyer, Senior U.S. District Judge.

“Alhaggagi wanted to carry out deadly terrorist attacks in the United States in the name of ISIS,” said Assistant Attorney General Demers. “Today’s sentencing shows the dedication of the National Security Division and our partners to hold accountable those who seek to provide material support to foreign terrorist organizations and to conduct violence on their behalf. I commend the work of the agents, analysts, and prosecutors who are responsible for this case.”

His aim was to “redefine terror,” and he promised that if he succeeded, the “whole Bay Area [was] gonna be in flames.” Among his more vicious attacks, he planned to explode a car bomb outside a gay nightclub in San Francisco, and plant backpack bombs on routes known to be used by emergency vehicles, in an effort to kill first responders seeking to aid casualties. In addition, even after his arrest, Alhaggagi hatched a new plot for a bomb attack and shared the plan with prison inmates. At one point, Alhaggagi was driving through Berkeley towards the Oakland Hills with an undercover agent when he pointed out several bars and clubs “where all the students are.” The defendant commented, “it’s a nice area to attack… it’s like, everybody’s in their own world, just doing their thing.”

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/isis-supporter-sentenced-almost-16-years-attempting-provide-material-support-foreign

Notable: DOD leaders brief Congress on IT, cybersecurity, information assurance

DOD Leaders Brief Congress on IT, Cybersecurity, Information Assurance

https://dod.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1768617/dod-leaders-brief-congress-on-it-cybersecurity-information-assurance/

Notable: All “Armor Of God” Q posts

All ARMOR OF GOD posts.

Notable: ; >>5403363 ; >>5403443 21 point list of recommended priorities for AG Barr (Q #2889)

>>5403236 pb

21 point list of recommended priorities for AG Barr from Q2889

……..

There are many experienced intel officials with a lot to say about what they’ve seen and experienced on the inside. But they don’t have a public platform. They don’t appear on TV. They don’t tweet. Nobody of consequence asks for their advice. And they won’t have the chance to tell Attorney General Barr in person what they think. Yet, they do have some thoughts as to what should be his immediate priorities.

In order for them to be able to speak frankly and without repercussions, they prefer that their names not be made public. Two of them specifically offered that some former intel officials should “go to prison” or “belong in jail” for offenses they have committed. One commented on what he called their “wanton lawlessness and unconstitutional actions.”

What seems important is that these are not the opinions of random, fly-by-night government employees…..

…….Their 21 recommended priorities, some of it in their own words: (see cap)

……………

https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/431353-dear-attorney-general-barr-advice-from-insiders

Notable: New DJTJr - “Journalists” meeting with tech companies

Agreed. Enough of this nonsense it’s time for everyone to speak up.

responding to:

“Journalists” meeting with tech companies in order to ban citizens from platforms. At this point if you’re silent you’re complicit.

cc: @jordanbpeterson @EricRWeinstein @benshapiro @Timcast @MrAndyNgo @nickmon1112

CST

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1100554931705208832

Notable: Cunt attacks MAGA het wearer; ICE later arrests her for being in country illegally

HEheheheh

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1100556121146826752

Notable: ; >>5403485 ; >>5403545 More on Eugene Gu

More on Eugene Gu.

His company and research.

Stemxpress is also involved and does umbilical cord blood and bone marriw fetal research. Was not able to find out much about them.

Notable: ; >>5403447 3/15 is in 17 days

3/15 is in 17 days.

Notable: TRUMP CURSE -Eugene Gu is a yuge twatter troll, he in trouble now

So I did a dig on Eugene Gu MD this morning who aggressively trolls POTUS.

He was removed from an Internship for Stalking His EX Girlfriend on Twitter and has a history of Domestic Violence against Women.

Doesn’t stop there. He is also wrapped up in a House Investigation in use of Fetal Tissue from PP.

His Company Ganogen tranplants organs from aborted fetus’s into rats.

He is also tied to a clinic in New Mexico who also was connected to PP investigation and it cut ties with PP when the organ trafficking video came out.

As you know New Mexico just passed House Bill 51 easing/ allowing Late Term Abortion procedures.

I posted early this morning and didn’t get much interest.

There is too much info for one post.

Ill post the first part and if anyone is interested I’ll post m0ar.

Notable: >>5402865 old Q post BIG BIG BIG has JW and FISA in it

BIG

BIG

BIG

Notable: House passes measure to block Emergency Decl

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1100541180461371392

Notable: March dates and calendar related to Q posts

March 11th [30]

March 19th [38] or [21] from today

March 26th [45]

3 BIG's included

3 weeks = 21 days

1 BIG / week

Notable: The Funds Available to Address the National Emergency at Our Border

Subject: The Funds Available to Address the National Emergency at Our Border

poolreports

46 minutes ago

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 26, 2019

** THE FUNDS AVAILABLE TO ADDRESS THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY AT OUR BORDER

“The current situation at the southern border presents a border security and humanitarian crisis that threatens core national security interests and constitutes a national emergency.” – President Donald J. Trump

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** LEGAL JUSTIFICATION: President Donald J. Trump is clearly justified in declaring a national emergency and utilizing other statutory authorities to address the crisis at our border.

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* In declaring a national emergency, a President may invoke any of more than 100 available statutory authorities. President Trump’s declaration invoked two:

+ 10 U.S.C. § 12302 authorizes Department of Defense (DOD) officials to order the Ready Reserve to active duty to address a national emergency.

+ 10 U.S.C. § 2808 authorizes the Secretary of Defense to direct military construction necessary to support the use of the Armed Forces in connection with a “national emergency… that requires use of the armed forces.”

* The President reasonably determined that the national emergency at the southern border “require[d] use of the armed forces.”

+ An emergency that “requires use of the armed forces” means the President has determined that the armed forces are necessary to address the crisis.

+ More than 5,000 troops are deployed at the border.

+ DOD is now reviewing which emergency military construction projects, such as the building of barriers, may be “necessary to support” the use of the Armed Forces.

+ DOD is still in the process of making such determinations, so no funds have yet been authorized for use.

* Separate from the national emergency, the President invoked two other statutory authorities to direct needed funds to the border.

+ Congress expressly authorized the military to support Federal agencies in blocking drug-smuggling corridors across international boundaries, using 10 U.S.C. § 284(b).

+ Under 10 U.S.C. § 284(b)(7), the United States military may construct “fences and road and [install] lighting … to block drug smuggling corridors across international boundaries of the United States” upon request from the responsible agency.

o DHS has requested that DOD use this counterdrug authority to construct fencing and roads and to install lighting in high-priority drug-smuggling corridors.

o To devote additional resources to such construction, DOD will augment existing counterdrug funds by transferring up to $2.5 billion from other DOD accounts.

o DOD’s transfer authority is provided in section 8005 of the FY19 DOD appropriations act.

o In past years, DOD has relied upon its general transfer authority to reallocate up to $4 billion from within the DOD budget.

+ Under 31 U.S.C. § 9705(g)(4)(B), the Secretary of the Treasury may provide money from the Treasury Forfeiture Fund to other agencies for use “in connection with the law enforcement activities of any Federal agency.”

o Treasury has identified about $601 million that will be made available to DHS for use in law enforcement border security efforts.

Notable: March MADNESS (Q 911) (reminder)

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Notable: >>5402331 Gaetz calling out Cohen and his girlfriends

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Gaetz about to get himself in trouble. From his personal twitter:

https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1100503846386835456?s=19

Notable: House voting t nullify national emergency declaration.

https://twitter.com/BreakingNLive/status/1100535329205956614

The US House is voting to nullify President Trump's national emergency declaration to fund his border wall. It is expected to pass.

Notable: Huckabee on hannity tonight.

I'll be on @seanhannity 9pmET and will challenge Sean about his riding scooter in Hanoi to get to his @FoxNews show.

It was NOT due to traffic.

@seanhannity has decided to go all AOC on the Green New Deal and become a vegan too.

I'll call him out!

twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/1100532766083567618

Notable: Democrats unveil a Medicare For All bill with a detailed single-payer plan that they plan to aggressively push this year.

https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1100532025575047171

Democrats unveil a Medicare For All bill with a detailed single-payer plan that they plan to aggressively push this year.

Notable: Law enforcement agencies seek public's help to identify additional victims in Phoenix child exploitation case.

W A N T E D

Law enforcement agencies seek public's help to identify additional victims in Phoenix child exploitation case

www.ice.gov/news/releases/law-enforcement-agencies-seek-publics-help-identify-additional-victims-phoenix-child

twitter.com/ICEgov/status/1100528328191008768

Notable: Lewandowski Tweet: "Time to hold the left accountable."

Time to hold the left accountable.

This is great!

twitter.com/CLewandowski_/status/1100528870900621312

Notice is hereby given that Citizens United Foundation is offering a $50,000 reward in exchange for information leading to the apprehension and conviction of the person who perpetrated an assault and battery on Hayden Williams at UC Berkeley.

twitter.com/David_Bossie/status/1100525468929921025

www.citizensunitedfoundation.org/latestheadlines.aspx?article=11367

Notable: Watchdog files Senate ethics complaint against Sen. Gillibrand.

Watchdog Files Senate Ethics Complaint Against Sen. Gillibrand

A video reaction shot of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) responding critically to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address is at the heart of a complaint filed with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics by the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT). In the video, Gillibrand is seen sighing and rolling her eyes in response to Trump’s declaration that the United States has “the hottest economy in the world.” Gillibrand tweeted the video from her personal Twitter account, asking readers if they agree with her and encouraging them to “Chip in $5 so we can put an end to this.”

Senate and House of Representatives ethics rules bar the use of any tax-funded congressional resource in any partisan campaign activity, including fund-raising. That means the tweet was illegal, according to FACT Executive Director Kendra Arnold, because Gillibrand used a clip from the official House video of Trump’s address to appeal for contributions to her campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. “This is one of the most simple and straightforward ethics rules, and any violation is troubling because the Member has put politics above the law,” Arnold said in a Feb. 11 statement announcing the complaint.

In her group’s letter to the Senate ethics panel, Arnold said “Presumably, Senator Gillibrand is aware of her ethics violation because she later removed the tweet after raising funds in violation of ethics rules, all of which should be returned.” Arnold continued in the letter, noting that “in this case, Senator Gillibrand used an official resource, i.e. official House video footage of a joint session of the United States Congress, for political fundraising purposes. “The ethics rules recognize floor proceedings are official actions and video coverage are official resources, which may not be used for political purposes. “This is a straightforward violation: Senate Ethics Rules prohibit Senators from solicitating campaign contributions using official taxpayer-funded resources, regardless of whether it is House or Senate video footage.”

A spokesman for Gillibrand did not respond to multiple requests from The Epoch Times for comment, and it could not be learned if the senator or members of her staff have had any conversations with the ethics panel or if any funds received in response to the tweet have been returned to donors. The Senate panel rarely comments publicly on the status of its activities with regard to particular complaints against individual senators. Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) is chairman of the ethics committee, while Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) is vice-chairman. There are four other members, including two from each party.

Gillibrand’s tweet drew a fiery response from Americans for Limited Government President Richard Manning. “Senator Gillibrand knew the rules against using video from Congress for political purposes, and chose to break them,” Manning told The Epoch Times. “Gillibrand’s political fundraising team grabbed onto what was likely a pre-planned eye-roll, which was suitable for immediately being turned into a political campaign appeal,” Manning said. Manning pointed out that nothing was done in response to a previous complaint filed with the ethics committee against Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.). Booker issued fund-raising emails while participating as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee in the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in September 2018. “If the Senate ethics committee follows up their refusal to sanction” Booker, Manning said “with another swing and miss on this obvious Gillibrand abuse, it will be clear that they now have two sets of rules—one for Democrats running for president and another for everyone else in the Senate.” Manning’s comments about Booker’s Kavanaugh hearing actions concerned a Sept. 12, 2018, complaint filed by another government watchdog, Judicial Watch.

Three months later, Deborah Sue Mayer, the ethics committee’s general counsel and staff director, responded in a letter to Judicial Watch, saying, “The committee carefully evaluated the allegations in the complaint and, based on all the information before it, determined that no further action is appropriate.” Although the mainstream media has ignored the FACT complaint to date, Gillibrand is certain to be asked about it in the future. The New York senator is among a dozen Democratic colleagues in the upper chamber who have announced presidential runs or who are expected to in the near future.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/watchdog-files-senate-ethics-complaint-against-sen-gillibrand_2816875.html

Notable: US denied tens of thousands of visas in 2018 due to Trump’s travel ban.

US Denied Tens of Thousands of Visas in 2018 Due to Trump’s Travel Ban

WASHINGTON—The State Department rejected more than 37,000 visa applications in 2018 because of the Trump administration’s travel ban, up from fewer than 1,000 the previous year, when the ban hadn’t fully taken effect, according to agency data. The United States denies almost 4 million visa applications a year for a variety of reasons, including for practicing polygamy, abducting children, or simply not qualifying for the visa in question. The data released Feb. 26 was the first comprehensive look at the effects of the ban ordered by President Donald Trump shortly after he took office, and which was initially blocked by federal courts. The ban has especially affected people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen, countries where the number of visas issued slid 80 percent in 2018 from 2016, the last year without a travel ban.

Trump’s initial January 2017 executive order, banning entry to the United States by citizens of several Muslim-majority countries, launched a fierce fight in federal courts over whether the policy amounts to an unlawful “Muslim ban” or was a legal exercise of presidential power. The administration revised the policy following court challenges, and the Supreme Court allowed it to largely go into effect in December 2017 while legal challenges continued. In June 2018, the high court upheld the new version of the ban. As a result, most people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen have not been able to enter the United States for well over a year. Venezuela and North Korea also were targeted in the current policy, but those restrictions weren’t challenged in court.

The figures released show the government denied 15,384 applications for immigrant visas—given to those who want to live permanently in the United States—due to the “2017 Executive Order on Immigration.” A State Department spokeswoman confirmed that term referred to the travel ban policy. In addition, 21,645 applications for non-immigrant visas—given to people coming for short-term visits for business, tourism or other reasons—were denied due to the ban. Approximately 2,200 visa applications overcame denials based on the travel ban last year, but it was unclear how many of those applications were initially made last year or earlier. The data didn’t include how many visa applications were made by citizens from countries affected by the travel ban.

Every month, the State Department releases the numbers of visas issued to citizens of all countries, including those under the travel ban, but it doesn’t publish equivalent monthly information on the number of visa applications or denials by country. Other previously released data from the State Department shows that the number of U.S. visas issued to citizens of the countries under the travel ban has dropped drastically as a result of its implementation. In the fiscal year from Oct. 1, 2017, through Sept. 30, 2018, citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen—the five countries consistently on the travel ban list throughout its different iterations—received approximately 14,600 U.S. visas. That is down 80 percent from approximately 72,000 visas issued for citizens of those countries in fiscal year 2016, when no such ban was in place.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/state-department-denies-tens-of-thousands-of-visas-in-2018-due-to-trumps-travel-ban_2816717.html

Notable: POTUS admin puts controls on imported steel.

Q Related- STEEL

The strict enforcement of U.S. trade law is a primary focus of the Trump Administration. Since the beginning of the current Administration, Commerce has initiated 143 new antidumping and countervailing duty investigations – this is a 249 percent increase from the comparable period in the previous administration.

Antidumping and countervailing duty laws provide American businesses and workers with an internationally accepted mechanism to seek relief from the harmful effects of the unfair pricing of imports into the United States. Commerce currently maintains 470 antidumping and countervailing duty orders which provide relief to American companies and industries impacted by unfair trade.

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Enforcement and Compliance unit within the International Trade Administration is responsible for vigorously enforcing U.S. trade law and does so through an impartial, transparent process that abides by international law and is based on factual evidence provided on the record.

Foreign companies that price their products in the U.S. market below the cost of production or below prices in their home markets are subject to antidumping duties. Companies that receive unfair subsidies from their governments, such as grants, loans, equity infusions, tax breaks, or production inputs, are subject to countervailing duties aimed at directly countering those subsidies.

https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2019/02/us-department-commerce-initiates-antidumping-duty-and-countervailing

Notable: Here are hundreds of pages of official documents about predictive policing in America.

Here Are Hundreds of Pages of Official Documents About Predictive Policing in America

Earlier this month, Motherboard published an investigation which detailed how law enforcement agencies nationwide are using and have used PredPol, a controversial software that claims to be able to predict crime.

Academics have claimed that the algorithm which powers PredPol, at least it has been presented to police, is not nuanced enough to be able to actually predict crime. More accurately, the software predicts future policing by sending police to places in which they have policed before.

Now, we’ve published all of the documents we got back that informed our initial investigation.

Here are some of the highlights:

“Best Practices and Training Guide”: In a document dated May 30 2014, PredPol recommends “broken windows” policing. Broken windows is a controversial, unproven method of policing which postulates that harshly penalizing petty crime will improve safety in cities overall.

“How predictable is crime”: This document features Jeffrey Brantingham, chief of research and development at PredPol, who wrote, “Crime prevention benefits everybody. I can’t see how that wouldn’t be an appropriate direction to move.”

“PredPolPresentation_2013_March_1.pdf”: This document dated March 1, 2013 lists over a dozen US cities as “current or near term deployments.”

“SS911Presentation 08Aug2014”: This document also named over a dozen US cities in a list titled “Who is using PredPol?” The list ends with a bullet point stating “And many more…”

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/71295/here-are-hundreds-of-pages-of-official-documents-about-predictive-policing-in.html

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3m7jq/dozens-of-cities-have-secretly-experimented-with-predictive-policing-software

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwbag4/academics-confirm-major-predictive-policing-algorithm-is-fundamentally-flawed

https://www.documentcloud.org/public/search/projectid:42755-Predpol

Notable: POTUS to attend CPAC 2019.

https://twitter.com/mschlapp/status/1100136004986507264

Notable: Washington Sheriff's pledge not to enforce gun control law.

Washington Sheriff's Pledge Not to Enforce Gun Control Law

https://www.officer.com/command-hq/news/21056102/washington-sheriffs-pledge-not-to-enforce-gun-control-law

most are good.. blue lives matter

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